Monday, 29th September 2014

Congress.gov is Out of Beta with New Features

By Africa S. Hands

From the Library of Congress:

The site now includes the following:

New Feature: Congress.gov Resources

• A new resources section providing an A to Z list of hundreds of links related to Congress
• An expanded list of “most viewed” bills each day, archived to July 20, 2014

New Feature: House Committee Hearing Videos

• Live streams of House Committee hearings and meetings, and an accompanying archive to January, 2012

Improvement: Advanced Search

• Support for 30 new fields, including nominations, Congressional Record and name of member

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• Source File (ResourceShelf)
• Web 2.0 (ResourceShelf)

Africa S. Hands is an independent librarian with a focus on helping professionals understand and utilise social media and search engines through one-on-one tutorials and small group workshops. Africa tweets (@africahands) on resources of interest to information and higher education professionals.

Africa can be reached at [email protected]

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